E. J. Dionne

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the…

— E. J. Dionne

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

— E. J. Dionne

What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a…

— E. J. Dionne

The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't…

— E. J. Dionne

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

— E. J. Dionne

I think this is a scary thing [hacking] that does have to be taken out of a partisan context. And one of…

— E. J. Dionne

Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people…

— E. J. Dionne

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they…

— E. J. Dionne

The madman theory can work, but it only works if it's strategic. And I think one of the problems that President Trump…

— E. J. Dionne

You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry…

— E. J. Dionne

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

— E. J. Dionne

On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic…

— E. J. Dionne

It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.

— E. J. Dionne

I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson,…

— E. J. Dionne

God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes…

— E. J. Dionne

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

— E. J. Dionne

Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into…

— E. J. Dionne

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States…

— E. J. Dionne

[I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared ] that Donald Trump and his campaign, or his future…

— E. J. Dionne

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

— E. J. Dionne

If you really want to change the Trump administration, you have to change the guy at the top. And that's not happening…

— E. J. Dionne

.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in…

— E. J. Dionne

What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort…

— E. J. Dionne

I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.

— E. J. Dionne